Cyber Essentials Jobs in Merseyside

Cyber Essentials
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Essentials over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 91 87
Rank change year-on-year +41 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 7 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.63% 0.38% 0.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.59% 2.31% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile - - £37,825
25th Percentile £25,750 £58,750 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £62,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -57.60% +34.41% -22.50%
75th Percentile £61,375 £66,250 £54,375
90th Percentile £76,500 - £62,700
North West median annual salary £55,021 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.04% +22.22% -14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Merseyside

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 73 216 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 16.98% 16.56% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 49 146 66
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £47,500 £70,000 £49,500
90th Percentile £60,050 £90,000 £53,750
North West median annual salary £47,683 £47,683 £49,500
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -1.00%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Cyber Essentials as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Essentials in Merseyside

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Merseyside.

Salary trend for Cyber Essentials in Merseyside

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Merseyside over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in Merseyside

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +46 2 £77,500 +24.00%
Wirral - 1 £58,500 -
Cyber Essentials
North West

Cyber Essentials
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Information
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) Head of Security
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Logistics
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
4 1 (14.29%) ISMS
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk